What’s new and exciting this week? The London Science Festival, the largest event of its kind, takes off!
Last Friday we highlighted an evaluation of a paper reporting that a lot of papers might need to be scrutinized because they used a reagent–catalase–from a particular supplier. The catalase was contaminated with a compound that affected the very thing being measured (vasodilation in the kidney). Via the magic of Twitter, we’ve learned that there…
If you’re around the Great Metropolis in October, you might like to check out these two upcoming public lectures (as well as dropping by F1000 Mission Control for a coffee). First, for the princely sum of £5 you can listen to comedy writer Daniel Maier as he examines the stranger side of the Victorian polymath…
My doctorate supervisor was fond of telling me that I had to keep a good lab notebook in case I “walked under a bus” one morning. Although I was utterly convinced of the necessity of accurate records, somehow this particular exhortation didn’t have quite the desired effect on my attitude. Maybe he should have warned…
Nature News posted a piece on Friday about a new enterprise Science Exchange which its co-founder, Elizabeth Irons, describes as: ‘an ebay, but for Scientific Knowledge’. Cool idea and obviously born of a real need to get things done. As Dr Irons recounts, the genesis for the idea was when she wanted to commission experiments…
In that social media-type vibe that’s going on, we’re trying to collate sources of grant funding: a handy one-stop guide to what’s available, and what’s recently been announced. We’re experimenting with two ways of curating and displaying the info we manage to harvest, at Grant funding news on paper.li, and Grant news at scoop.it. They’re…
Via a tweet from F1000 Member David Stephens I came across the latest edition of despatches from the frontline, aka the Journal of Cell Science‘s ‘Sticky Wicket‘ column.
News like this always warms my heart. The Royal Society has announced this year’s awards, and there are three from the Nobel Factory(cite). Greg Winter receives the Royal Medal for interdisciplinary sciences (and perhaps also for surviving the LMB for nearly 40 years); Brad Amos has been invited to deliver the 2012 Leeuwenhoek Lecture in…
Something I was involved with a long time ago, and then promptly forgot about, was working out how authors of F1000-evaluated papers might like to advertise the fact. Buried deep within our About pages is a little badge you can put on your own website, or your CV, or whatever: If you’ve had a paper…
Once upon a time, I hated the very thought of living in London. since moving here, that attitude has changed completely. It’s not hard to see why: at some point, it seems, just about everyone and everything comes to this great city, either just passing through or to stay.
